Method and apparatus for coupling a voiceband modem circuit to a common phoneline connector

• US 6,904,133 B2
• Filed: 06/24/2003
• Issued: 06/07/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte Limited (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Broadcom Corporation (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hariri, Ali, Trachewsky, Jason Alexander, Snow, Dane R., Yamano, Larry C.
• Primary Examiner(s): CHAN, WING F
• Application Number:
  US10/602,800
• Publication Number:
  US 20040052344A1
• Time in Patent Office: 714 Days
• Field of Search: 379/90.01, 379 9305- 9309, 379/93.33, 379/399.01, 379/399.02, 37941302-41304, 379/398, 370/350, 333/17.1, 333/32
• US Class Current: 379/93.05
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2898 Subscriber equipments DSL modems H04M11/062; cable modems H04L12/2801
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0266 Arrangements for providing Galvanic isolation, e.g. by means of magnetic or capacitive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0272 Arrangements for coupling to multiple lines, e.g. for differential transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/062 using different frequency bands for speech and other data
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/066 Telephone sets adapted for data transmision

Abstract

A method and apparatus for coupling a voiceband modem circuit to a common phoneline connector, the common phoneline connection having a ring line connection and a tip line connection which couples a ring/tip line pair to a subscriber loop circuit, the voiceband modem circuit operating in a voiceband modem operating frequency band and having a voiceband modem interface ring line and a voiceband modem interface tip line. The voiceband modem interface ring line is coupled to the ring line and the voiceband modem interface tip line is coupled to the tip line connection by inserting, between the ring line connection and the voiceband modem interface ring line and between the tip line connection and the voiceband modem interface tip line, a series pair of inductors. A first inductor of the series pair has a low inductance and a high self-resonant frequency and a second inductor of the series pair has a high inductance and low self-resonant frequency. The low inductance, the high self-resonant frequency, the high inductance and the low self-resonant frequency are each determined to locate a filtering cutoff point between the voiceband modem operating frequency band and a digital subscriber line operating frequency band.

Claims

1. A method of coupling a device operating at voiceband frequencies in parallel with a device operating at frequencies above voiceband comprising:

inserting at an input interface between the device operating at voiceband frequencies and the device operating at frequencies above voiceband a series pair of inductors, a first inductor of the series pair having a low inductance and a high self-resonant frequency and a second inductor of the series pair having a high inductance and low self-resonant frequency, the low inductance, the high self-resonant frequency, the high inductance and the low self-resonant frequency being each determined to locate a filtering cutoff point between the voiceband frequencies and the frequencies above voiceband.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the frequencies above voiceband are digital subscriber line frequencies from a 26 kHz to 1.104 MHz frequency range.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the frequencies above voiceband are home phoneline frequencies from a 4 Mhz to 10 Mhz frequency range.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the device operating at voiceband frequencies is a facsimile device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the input interface is a common RJ-11 phoneline connection.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the low inductance is 47 μ

H and the high inductance is 5 mH.

7. An interface circuit between a device operating at voiceband frequencies in parallel with a device operating at frequencies above voiceband comprising:

a series pair of inductors coupled between an input of the device operating at voiceband frequencies and an input of the device operating at frequencies above voiceband, a first inductor of the series pair having a low inductance and a high self-resonant frequency, and a second inductor of the series pair having a high inductance and low self-resonant frequency, the low inductance, the high self-resonant frequency, the high inductance and the low self-resonant frequency, being each determined to locate a filtering cutoff point between the voiceband frequencies and the frequencies above voiceband.

8. The interface circuit of claim 7, wherein the frequencies above voiceband are digital subscriber line frequencies from a 26 kHz to 1.104 MHz frequency range.

9. The interface circuit of claim 7, wherein the frequencies above voiceband are home phoneline frequencies from a 4 Mhz to 10 Mhz frequency range.

10. The interface circuit of claim 7, wherein the device operating at voiceband frequencies is a facsimile device.

11. The interface circuit of claim 7, wherein the input of the device operating at voiceband frequencies and the input of the device operating at frequencies above voiceband is a common RJ-11 phoneline connection.

12. The interface circuit of claim 7, wherein the low inductance is 47 μ

H and the high inductance is 5 mH.